Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis on Monday defended President Obama's efforts to combat the recession and unemployment, saying his focus has been on helping the jobless and underemployed.
Hundreds of Afghans railed against the United States and called for President Obama's death at a rally in Kabul on Monday to denounce a Florida church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on Sept. 11.
The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, known as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), has taken on a daunting task — a huge increase in its efforts to recruit, train and equip Kabul's army and national police forces.
Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs despite calls for a tougher line on Chinese economic policies that some say are contributing to American unemployment.
President Obama will announce on Monday a plan to spend at least $50 billion on long-term investments for the country's transportation infrastructure, another attempt to stimulate the lagging U.S. economy ahead of the November elections.
The Justice Department won't say whether the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore.
A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.
A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.
Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.
